Saïgon
\saj.ɡɔ̃\
The verdict
“Saïgon” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,722. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,722
- frequency rank, French
- 394,209
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom familier actuel et ancien nom officiel de Hô-Chi-Minh-Ville (de 1698 à 1976).
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Saïgon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \saj.ɡɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #44,722 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Saïgon” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Saïgon (IPA \saj.ɡɔ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #44,722 among 394,209 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Saïgon, with forms such as "asïgon", "sagïon", and "saïggon". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "sain", "Sion", "sign", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Saïgon, spelled S-A-Ï-G-O-N.
Definition
- 1Nom familier actuel et ancien nom officiel de Hô-Chi-Minh-Ville (de 1698 à 1976).
- 2Rivière du sud du Viêt Nam, qui prend sa source près de Phum Daung (sud-est du Cambodge) et passe par la ville de Hô-Chi-Minh ; affluent du fleuve Donnaï dans la toponymie de l'Indochine française. Dans la toponymie vietnamienne moderne, la confluence de la rivière Saïgon avec la Đồng Nai forme la Nhà Bè, qui de scinde en le Soài Rạp et le Lòng Tàu.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asïgon,sagïon,saïggon,saïgno,saïgonn,saïogn,ssaïgon,sïagon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Saïgon - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Saïgon”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-A-Ï-G-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \saj.ɡɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “sain” - see the side-by-side comparison. Saïgon vs sain
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.